The move came two months after the leader of the far-right MHP, a close ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, offered Ocalan an unprecedented olive branch if he ...

DEM's first meeting with Ocalan followed Bahceli's surprise proposal last year for Ocalan to announce the PKK's disbandment. The talks fostered peace hopes but the precarious situation of Kurdish ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group's disbandment after his next meeting ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is “ready to make a call” to back a new initiative by the Turkish government to end decades of conflict, Turkey’s ...

A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition DEM party met Thursday with the parliamentary speaker and far-right MHP leader amid tentative efforts to resume dialogue between Ankara and the ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A pro-Kurdish lawmaker on Monday who recently met jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan at Imrali called the results from ...

ANKARA - The jailed leader of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has been quoted as indicating he may be prepared to call for militants to lay down arms ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group's disbandment after his next meeting with ...

The aim was to brief them on a rare weekend meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) who is serving life without parole on Imrali prison island near ...